MINNEAPOLIS — When Raghavan Iyer was a young graduate with a chemistry degree trying to decide what to do with his life, he went to the United States Consulate in his native Mumbai and flipped through college catalogs. It was one of those moments in life when one decision changes everything. He picked a small…
Whatever a certain rodent’s speculations on the start of spring might be, February will always be a cold, gray slog. It’s inevitably the time when I daydream of flying off to some tropical Eden to eat lime-drenched papayas in the morning sun and pluck ripe mangoes from the trees in the afternoon shade. And I’m…
If you’re planning to dine out in Buenos Aires, be prepared for an unfamiliar sight: lines. As the city springs back to life, the streets feel almost celebratory, an antidote to the lingering side effects of extended Covid lockdowns. Alfresco tables are packed. Locals who would never have queued up for dinner before the pandemic…
Tomeka Lynch Purcell and her husband, Herbert Purcell, entrepreneurs in Charlotte, N.C., decided that the cocktail scene lacked a bourbon appealing to women and to a Black audience. So they set out to fill the gap. Their new straight bourbon is called PurCellos1789, the number referring to the founding date of Mrs. Purcell’s hometown, Winston-Salem,…
In addition to his son Adam, Mr. Greenberg is survived by another son, Seth, and four grandchildren. Carol Greenberg died in 2017. The bakeries were a family business. Carol worked in sales and quality control, and the boys began working before their 10th birthdays, folding cake, pie and cookie boxes after school and on weekends…
I am a lover of soups that seamlessly balance contrasting flavors — the herbed, spicy bite of a classic Lagosian pepper soup or the coconut creaminess and tomatoey sharpness of a moqueca. I’ve written about the restorative nature of brothy soups and the comfort of umami-rich stews like maafé. It’s soups that delicately combine sweet…
I had the good fortune to eat eggplant Parmesan for dinner this week (not made by me!), and it got me thinking about the intense pleasures of the Parm family — not just eggplant Parmesan, but the various iterations made with chicken, pork, veal, mushrooms, cauliflower or even zucchini. (There’s also air-fryer chicken Parmesan, which…
What a gift it would be to bottle up summer and enjoy it in the thick of February. Plenty have tried. Sea salt hair spray never quite replicates those natural beachy waves, piña colada hard seltzer won’t transport you to the tropics and that garden vegetable candle just doesn’t stand in for the real thing.…
It’s easy to forget that citrus has a season unless you live among the trees, somewhere warm where you can catch its daydream scent with the winter breeze. If you know that magic, you want to capture it. If you don’t, you want to experience it. There’s a hint of it when peeling an orange,…
By Tilly Macalister-Smith Since starting her brand Completedworks in 2013, the British jeweler Anna Jewsbury has sold her signature organic forms and asymmetrical earrings online and through retailers like Dover Street Market and Bergdorf Goodman. But she wanted to have more direct interactions with her customers and, as of January, she’s created a space for…